![]() Three of the stories in Binocular Vision, which follow the same characters through the second world war, seem to be reaching towards a novel, but she is clearly happiest over the rapid span. ![]() ![]() It is notoriously tough to achieve literary fame without writing a novel: even Alice Munro, superstar of the brief piece, has dabbled in longer narrative. There are hints within the book of why Pearlman has been a latecomer to the sort of recognition that she clearly deserves. Even now, though, the book's British launch comes from a plucky smaller publisher, Pushkin Press. This volume of 34 stories from across her career has popularised the view that an American writer from the decade that produced John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth and Anne Tyler had been seriously under-valued and may even be their equal. ![]()
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